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Sara Lowes
@saralowes.bsky.social
UCSDEcon | Ph.D. Harvard | Development, culture, political economy, and economic history
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🆕 Culture and economic development 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, Natalie Bau (UCLA), @saralowes.bsky.social (@ucsandiego.bsky.social) & @eduardomontero.bsky.social (Harris School of Public Policy) discuss how culture shapes economic policy and, consequently, development: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
September 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Please apply!! RA for research on culture and development. employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...
Research Assistant - 135955
Research Assistant - 135955 | Careers at UC San Diego
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August 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Hiring a full-time pre-doc. Please apply! Thank you!! employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...
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August 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Researcher assumptions shape not just how experiments run—but what questions we ask. Outlining best practices for designing context-aware lab experiments in non-Western settings, from Sara Lowes and @nathannunn.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w33981
July 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Are you:

✅ A young scholar in econ, poli sci, or law
✅ Working on institutions, broadly defined
✅ Interested in spending a week in Italy with amazing faculty

If so, please apply to this year’s Coase Institute Workshop! It’s a transformative experience for many, and always fun. I’ll be there.
Ronald Coase Institute: What's New
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July 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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🆕 The @comparativeecon.bsky.social 4th annual ACES Political Economy Summer School (August 2025).

This 3-day summer school will expose participants to cutting-edge research in political economy, economic history & development economics

More details & application: www.acesecon.org/conferences/...
2025 Summer School
Call for applications: 4th ACES Political Economy Summer School The Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) is pleased to present the 4th annual ACES Political Economy Summer School in Aug...
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May 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Please apply! Send your applications directly to us ☺️
Please consider applying for a summer RA position in Mozambique. Project with Fulvia Budillon and Andre Gray on traditional medicine. Must speak Portuguese. Job info: www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/fiel... Send materials to fbudillo@ucsd.edu and adgray@ucsd.edu, subject Mozambique Intern. Thanks!
Field Research Intern - UC San Diego Economics | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
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April 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Please consider applying for a summer RA position in Mozambique. Project with Fulvia Budillon and Andre Gray on traditional medicine. Must speak Portuguese. Job info: www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/fiel... Send materials to fbudillo@ucsd.edu and adgray@ucsd.edu, subject Mozambique Intern. Thanks!
Field Research Intern - UC San Diego Economics | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
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April 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
ACES summer school in Zanzibar!! Please apply!
March 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The deadline for submissions for the Workshop on Cultural Transmission and Persistence at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social in June 2025 is in 3 weeks. Kynotes: @ingelaalger.bsky.social @saralowes.bsky.social.

Submissions 👇
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#econtwitter #econsky #callforpapers #workshop
HHDI-NIDE Joint Workshop
HHDI-NIDE Joint Workshop on Cultural Transmission and Persistence This workshop aims to provide a venue for the presentation and discussion of frontier research on the persistence and transmission …
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March 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Call for Applications: 2025-2026 ACES Dissertation Research Fellowship. One-year fellowship includes stipend, tuition scholarship, and additional research/travel funding for PhD students advanced to candidacy. Applications accepted through April 15, 2025. www.acesecon.org/aces-dissert...
ACES Dissertation Fellowship
The ACES Dissertation Research Fellowship, launched for the 2020-2021 academic year to encourage research on comparative economics supports an emerging scholar in the field with a generous stipend and...
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February 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Please consider applying to a pre-doc position at UCSD. Projects at the intersection of development and culture in Africa with Eduardo Montero Nathan Nunn James Robinson & others. Possible fieldwork in DRC. French skills preferred. Thank you! employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...
Research Assistant - 133553
Apply for Research Assistant - 133553 position at UC San Diego in Remote, National on https://employment.ucsd.edu/
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December 10, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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Today’s the day! Please submit your proposals for SIOE 2024 by 6 pm ET.

Interdisciplinarity + Chicago + gala blues cruise = great fun. AND we will have an AI bootcamp on Thursday for those who arrive early.

We can help grad students along every margin but travel. Please apply!
Hi all - Here is the call for papers for SIOE 2024, which I am organizing @UChicago next summer, June 27–29. All sessions will be at the beautiful Keller Center @HarrisPolicy, with a gala cruise on Lake Michigan + blues band the last night. Please apply! www.sioe.org/conference/2...
January 31, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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Our next seminar will take place on January 25th, exceptionally at 4pm (UTC+1).  Sara Lowes (@) and Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma (@) will discuss the effects of culture and beliefs on health care utilization in Africa. Register here: listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/list...
January 18, 2024 at 11:12 AM